Sonia Hartl > Quotes

“I'm sorry." The universal empty words to give someone when you weren't quite sure what else to say.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“I’ve only recently gotten past thinking I didn’t need anyone. It might be a minute yet before I accept that people might need me.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story

“Wanting to love and be loved wasn't a weakness.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“Books had always been my bright spot away from the dark.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story

“I know what it's like to be sixteen because I'm always sixteen. I know what it's like to be alone because I'm always alone. And I damn well know what it looks like when someone gives up on me before I have the chance to show them what I'm really made of." I'd raised my voice to the point where a few people had stopped to stare. "It shouldn't be up to the kids to care when faced with someone who's already written them off."
When he didn't say anything, I left. It wasn't my job to make him a decent teacher again. I had bigger problems to worry about, finding someone to eat being at the top of my current priorities, but a piece of me hurt for his students. They deserved better than someone who had stopped seeing their worth.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“I'm not going to school." I'd rather shave my binkini line with a chainsaw.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“There was nothing worse than a boy who held the world in his hands and knew it.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“Her smile was infectious. Like a light that only glowed for me.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story

“She was one of us. A lost girl who still had time to find herself, and she deserved the chance we never got.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“Mark”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“Doesn’t it stress you out? Having to babysit her so she doesn’t forget she has a daughter she needs to bring with her when she moves?”
“Yeah.” She tugged her sweater over her head. “But I’m used to it.”
I recognise the defensiveness in her tone. It was the same one I used to Elton whenever he’d put down my mom, even though I complained about her constantly. It was okay for me to be angry, but if anyone else commented, I’d defend her with my last breath. The complication of having a complicated parent.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story

“Banks didn't give loans to sixteen-year-old girls. Vendors didn't do business with sixteen-year-old girls. The world expected us to shoulder adult burdens but treated us like children when we needed something in return. Those were lessons we learned the hard way.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“His eyes were the color of tornadoes,”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“After our sixth vodka cranberry, we walked to CVS and bought a cake and a $6.99 body wash gift set. We both woke up with hot-pink lipstick on our eyelids.”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“because making new friends as an adult was both painful and awkward—”
― Sonia Hartl, Rent to Be

“I followed her into the kitchen, where she pulled a bag of popcorn out of her purse and stuck it in the microwave. I leaned against the counter next to the empty cookie jars. “Do you just carry popcorn around?” “Yeah. Doesn’t everyone?”
― Sonia Hartl, Rent to Be

“I might not have had the whole adulting thing down yet, but I’d made a friend. All on my own. At least I could still do one thing right.”
― Sonia Hartl, Rent to Be

“You bought a matching sweater for my cat?”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“I should go say hi to a few people, but thank you for birthing such a lovely daughter.”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“But I didn’t know how much further we could go, if he became immersed in the academic world.”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“Anywhere we want.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“Shame is a luxury. Be happy you can still afford it.”
― Sonia Hartl, Rent to Be

“Ida dragged her nails along the lockers. They'd been mud brown in my day but had since been painted red, the color dry and faded. A whole generation had come and gone since I'd last been here. The remnants of whom we'd been lingered in the old brick walls and dusty trophy cases.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“By the end of the night, he’d be taking himself down. Turned out, he had a mermaid fetish. His Facebook was practically dedicated to them.”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“Welcome to Taco Bell. Order when ready." As I punched in the number of soft and hard tacos the drive-up wanted for their Grande Meal, I cursed every movie that made the life of a vampire look glamorous.”
― Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls

“He held my chin with one hand, claiming my mouth, letting me know that I was his and he was mine, and this was all we'd ever need.”
― Sonia Hartl, Rent to Be

“Reeling in a fish was not as easy as it looked on TV. Every crank of the reel felt like I was trying to jack up a car. I must’ve had a monster on the line. What if it was too big for the boat? What if I was reeling in the freshwater version of Moby Dick?”
― Sonia Hartl, Rent to Be

“He took me out to the river behind his house, handed me a metal detector, and taught me how to understand people by the objects they leave behind.”
― Sonia Hartl, Heartbreak For Hire

“In the dining hall, I got in line with my tray, next to Paul. "Tell me if you see anything you could put a condom on. Something long and hard enough."
"What the hell is going on in cabin eight?" he asked.”
― Sonia Hartl, Have a Little Faith in Me

“[He] had told me he loved me the night we'd had sex, but those weren't the three little words I'd needed to hear. "Are you okay?" would've gone a lot further. In fact, it would've made all the difference”
― Sonia Hartl, Have a Little Faith in Me